Love One Another As I Have Loved You
What You Do To Others, You Do To Christ
JOHN 15:12-13
“This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.
”John 15:12-13 NKJV
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Jesus said, “we are to love one another as I have loved you.” Indeed, love is the very foundation of God’s way of life.
He said, “ ‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.””
Matthew 22:37-40 NKJV
Can you imagine being in a court of law being found guilty of murder, waiting for your sentence. And then the judge says, “You are guilty of murder and the sentence is death.” But then the judge goes on to say, “however, I am a merciful judge, and I will pay your debt of sin with my life by taking your place on a cross; you are free.
My beloved, that is exactly what Christ Jesus did for you and for me! Their is no greater love than this, and Jesus tells us, “you must love one another as I have loved you.”
Love is more than just words or emotions, it is continuous actions of selfless acts of care and good toward others. We may not have to die for others, but their are other ways to practice sacrificial love. It means to care enough to meet the needs of those who can’t help themselves without any expectation of anything in return.
Paul said, “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”
I Corinthians 13:1-13 NKJV
Who can you help today?
Jesus said, “Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me (MATHEW 25:40).”
Whatever act of good or indeed evil, that you do for or to another, you do it to Christ. (MATHEW 5:43-44).
All glory to God forever and ever! Amen.
